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A People's History of the United States

by Howard Zinn

Published: 2015-11-17

Paperback: 784 pages

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With a new introduction by Anthony Arnove, this updated edition of the classic national bestseller reviews the book’s thirty-five year history and demonstrates once again why it is a significant contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.Since its original ...

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Champagne Baby: How One Parisian Learned to Love Wine--and Life--the American Way

by Laure Dugas

Published: 2016-05-03

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Voted one of the best memoirs of 2016 by Library Journal!Fresh, charming, and irresistible, Champagne Baby turns a familiar tale on its head: Instead of yet another American seeking the French secret to good living, a Frenchwoman finds her purpose—much to her surprise—in the U.S.Laure ...

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The Hamilton Affair: A Novel

by Elizabeth Cobbs

Published: 2016-08-02

Hardcover: 408 pages

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A New York Times Bestseller. "Why did Alexander Hamilton risk everything? Why did Eliza Hamilton stand by him? This complicated couple who did so much for young America spring to life in this entertaining, well-told tale." --Cokie Roberts, author of Capital Dames. Hamilton was a bast...

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Flashcards and The Curse of Ambrosia

by Tracy Robert

Published: 2015-10-15

Paperback: 200 pages

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Fiction. Robert's two protagonists flawlessly portray the immutable bonds of friendship, relationships that survive decades, and the collapse of families and societies. Robert captures the silent helplessness felt by children under their parents and by citizens—especially the elderly—under their...

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The Beauty Volume 1

by Jeremy Haun, Jason A. Hurley

Published: 2016-03-22

Paperback: 164 pages

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Modern society is obsessed with outward beauty. What if there was a way to guarantee you could become more and more beautiful every day? What if it was a sexually transmitted disease? In the world of The Beauty, physical perfection is only one sexual encounter away. The vast majority of th...

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Lady Killer

by Jamie S. Rich

Published: 2015-09-15

Paperback: 136 pages

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Josie Schuller is a picture-perfect homemaker, wife, and mother--but she's also a ruthless, efficient killer! She's balanced cheerful domestic bliss with coldly performed assassinations, but when Josie finds herself in the crosshairs, her American Dream life is in danger!A brand-new origin...

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Girl in Dior (Biographies)

by Annie Goetzinger

Published: 2015-04-01

Hardcover: 128 pages

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Winner of: YALSA 2016 Great Graphic Novels for Teens In February of 1947, the crème de la crème of Paris haute couture have flocked to see Christian Dior’s debut fashion show. In a flurry of corolla shaped skirts, the parade of models file down the runway and the mesmerized audienc...

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The Wandering Hill (The Berrybender Narratives, Vol. 2)

by Larry McMurtry

Published: 2005-08-08

Paperback: 320 pages

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The second volume in Larry McMurtry's four-part historical epic featuring the Berrybender family as they continue their journey through the West during the 1830s.In The Wandering Hill, Larry McMurtry continues the story of Tasmin Berrybender and her eccentric family in the still unexplored...

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By Sorrow's River: A Novel (Berrybender Narratives)

by Larry McMurtry

Published: 2005-08-08

Paperback: 368 pages

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In this tale of high-spirited and terrifying adventure, set against the background of the West that Larry McMurtry has made his own, By Sorrow’s River is an epic in its own right, with an extraordinary young woman as its leading figure.At the heart of this third volume of his Western sag...

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Folly and Glory (Berrybender Narratives)

by Larry McMurtry

Published: 2005-08-08

Paperback: 236 pages

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In this brilliant saga—the final volume of The Berrybender Narratives and an epic in its own right—Larry McMurtry lives up to his reputation for delivering novels with “wit, grace, and more than a hint of what might be called muscular nostalgia, fit together to create a panoramic por...